Happy 5th Birthday, Skype!
Friday, August 29th, 2008
As Skype CEO Josh Silverman announced on Skype’s blog today, it’s Skype’s 5th birthday today. It was back on August 29, 2003 that the first public beta of Skype was announced.
Happy Birthday, Skype!
Long-time users of Skype or Voxeo may recall that we originally partnered with Skype back in 2005 as part of their Voice Services Program, which was Skype’s original attempt at building a developer program. Skype’s program has morphed today into something a bit different through their Developer Zone and Extras program, but we’ve still retained connections with Skype.
In fact, I wrote about how to “Skype-ify” your voice applications back in March and any application you develop through our hosted Evolution developer portal automagically gets inbound Skype connectivity. Even for our free developer accounts!
We’re also huge fans of Skype internally and so we congratulate them on their fifth birthday and look forward to seeing what they do next.
P.S. You may also be interested in some thoughts I posted on my external blog around my view on how Skype has disrupted telephony over the past five years.
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